There have been 11 Resident Evil games of you shooting primarily white zombies, 12 if you count RE4 which I’m sure the author; would since they were obviously Spaniards in Europe (which I’m sure they’d label hispanic in their ignorance.)

In the end, it’s a videogame series about virus outbreaks turning people into monsters. Africa would be a logical choice of setting for a story in this series. In Africa there are Africans. And yes, in the game the main character is Caucasian…because Chris Redfield was one of the main characters of the first Resident Evil game and has not been seen since Resident Evil: Code Veronica (released in 2000).

I would go so far as to saying that the author of this blog entry should make a formal apology for BEING racist. It is racism when one makes baseless alarmist claims of racism where none exists. When someone does this, they simply make clear their own ignorance.

To make the implication (which this blog apparently is) that a Caucasian individual should never be shown defending himself against Africans because of a different skin color, is rather bigoted and short sighted in of itself, in my opinion. It is just as racist to say a group should be exclusively excluded due to the color of their skin, and does no service to anyone.

Posted by: sky at August 1, 2007 10:27 AM

This article misses the mark by so much it should be pulled.

A flagging journalist trying to improve their career?

Posted by: Russ at August 1, 2007 10:29 AM

I genuinely feel that a combination of misinformation, 'gun jumping' and hysteria will make this out to be a much larger problem than it ACTUALLY is.

I am black, I was born in Ethiopia and moved to Canada when I was 3 years old. My entire life I have never been the target of racism, at least to my knowledge. This is for two reasons I think.

1. Many tip toe around me as if pretending my skin is -not- darker than theirs will prevent my yelling indignation.

2. I just am -not- offended as easily as many people are. I don't jump the gun and assume advertisements, movies or yes, video games are out to get me and portray my 'race' (I hate calling it that) negatively.

About this trailer - if you played Re4, you would notice a very similar setting. You start off in a rural town in Spain, where people are dingy and dirty looking with an eerie spooky feeling (much like the beginning of this trailer) you ASSUME that they are not 'Zombies' (well they actually aren't, they are not undead, they are infected with a virus and have a sort of mind control effect on them) but in reality, they are infected from the start, and it is only when they learn about your presence and desire to -thwart- them do they start attacking you. It could just as easily (or considering the past cases, be more likely) that this is the exact same situation here. And odds are, you're going to have some 'black' help bringing down these 'zombies'!

If anything, this game may even bring to light the state of Africa, it may bring more awareness to all the problems that are currently running rampant in my 'motherland' and awareness is never a bad thing.

The thing that really gets to me is all these people being ridiculously defensive -for- me and my 'people'. You are part of the problem. I cannot believe that people do not realize that they are widening the gap between Africans and the rest of the world when they try ever so hard to 'respect our differences' like in this situation. I WANT an RE game in Africa; it's unique, it's ballsy and it's refreshing. People getting offended over this are IMMEDIATELY noticing the fact that these people are black and IMMEDIATELY assuming that black people should be exempt from all sorts of negative representations (such as the T virus). Stop it. Please, everyone who is trying to protect the black image... stop it. You are doing a lot more harm than help, and what we really need is supreme and complete equality - and that means letting black people be T-Virus infected crazed monsters too.

Posted by: Annon at August 1, 2007 10:32 AM

Your blog has failed.
Where were you in past RE games?

Are you saying you can't make movies/games set in Africa anymore.

How about GTA:San Andreas where you play as a black man shooting down hordes of innocent whites?

Guess you don't do much research.

Find some real news.

Posted by: Brian G. at August 1, 2007 11:05 AM

You know what would go a long way towards eliminating racism? People not putting so much fucking attention on everyone's race. Isn't that the key really?

Posted by: Anonymous at August 1, 2007 11:07 AM

Thank you for keeping racism alive. If it wasn't for people like you stretching and reaching for connections like this, the rest of the country might have put the idea of color behind us and look at this as just a video game. But you keep it alive and well, without people like you, the NAACP might not be needed any more ,they can't exist without racism, can they? So it has to be kept in the minds of the people from somewhere right?

I can't wait until your next article calling for the removal of all pool tables in the country because we can't have a game where a White ball pushes all the colored balls off the Green Earth table... can we?

Posted by: Joe Nobody at August 1, 2007 11:10 AM

All races should have an equal opportunity to be zombies. Not allowing blacks to be zombies is racism

Posted by: ThinkForAChange at August 1, 2007 11:24 AM